Shoe-pull



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SHOE PULL.

. Patented Nov. 2, 1897.

NVENTOR ATTORNEY.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMIL NOPPEL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHOEI-PULL.

SPEGIFICATIONfoz-ming part of Letters Patent No. 592,819, dated November2, 1897.

Application filed September 4, 1896. Serial No. 604,830. (No model.)

zen of the United States, residing in the city and county ofPhiladelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Shoe-Pulls, which improvement.

is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanyingdrawings.

My invention relates to an improvement in a device adapted for graspingan article of footwear in order to conveniently draw the same on thefoot; and it consists in providing such device with novel means, ashereinafter described, for engaging with the heel of the shoe, thuspreventing the slipping of the implement when upward draft is exerted onthe same.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a shoe-pull embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 represents a rear view thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twofigures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a shoe-horn having on the rearthereof the ear B, on which is pivoted the lever O, the same beingprovided with'a suitable handle at its upper end and with the jaw D atits lower projects laterally from said ear and occupies a position belowthe handle of the lever G. Bearing against the lever G and the handle Eis a spring F, whose tendency is to hold the jawD from the horn A, asshown in Fig. 1.

G designates a leg which depends from the lever O or jaw D and has atits lower end the foot F, which is so disposed as to engage with theheel of the shoe to be drawn on the foot.

The operation is as follows, the position of the parts being shown inFig. 1: The device is properly grasped and the rear wall of the articleof footwear, say a shoe, is received between the horn A and the jaw D.By properly pressing the lever 0 toward the grip the jaw D is forcedtoward the horn A, so that the contiguous portion of the shoe is tightlygrasped. At the same time the foot E is directed underneath the heel ofthe shoe and placed thereagainst, in which position of parts the deviceis drawn upwardly and the shoe thus conveniently fitted on the foot. Byreleasing the handle ofthe lever the jaw separates from the wall of theshoe, and the device may be readily removed, it being noticed that thefoot F recedes from the heel of pivoted to said horn, a handle on saidlever extending rearwardly, a jaw on said lever, a grip extendingrearwardly from said horn and toward which said handle is adapted tomove, and a leg depending from said lever below said grip and providedwith a foot adapted to extend beneath the heel of a shoe.

2. A shoe-pull consisting of a horn, an car on said horn, a leverpivoted to said ear, a handle on said lever, a jaw on said lever, a grippivoted to said ear and extending rearwardly therefrom, a spring againstthe lever and grip and adapted to separate the same, a leg dependingfrom said lever below said jaw and a foot on said leg adapted-to extendbeneath the heel of a shoe.

EMIL NOPPEL.

